Haryana has geared up to give a grand reception to Rio Olympics Bronze medallist wrestler Sakshi Malik, who would return home on Wednesday morning.
The State Government has made elaborate arrangements to welcome the Rohtak girl. State Cabinet Ministers including Capt Abhimanyu, Rao Narbir Singh, Vipul Goel, Banwari lal, Kavita Jain along with senior bureaucrats would welcome Sakshi at the Delhi Airport while Ministers Manish Kumar Grover and OP Dhankar will be in Sakshi’s hometown to welcome her.
Haryana Sports Minister Anil Vij, who led a State delegation to Rio would accompany Sakshi on the return flight.
The State Government has planned a victory procession for Sakshi to Rohtak. Chief Minister Manohar lal would felicitate her at a function and a cheque of cash award Rs 2.5 crore would be handed over to her while her coach would be given Rs 10 lakh cash award. A gathering of more than 20,000 is likely to attend the felicitation function.
As per the programme, before she heads to Rohtak, Sakshi will be welcomed near the Delhi-Haryana border at Bahadurgarh where prominent sportspersons, senior officials of the State Government, will receive her. Along the way, she will make brief stopovers at a couple of villages in Rohtak including Ismaila village where she will meet her maternal uncle. She will travel in a bedecked vehicle. “Grand plans have been made to welcome Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik in Haryana. Cabinet Ministers have been deputed to welcome her at Delhi Airport and in her hometown, said State Minister Manish Kumar Grover while talking to the mediapersons on Tuesday.
He said that she would be felicitated by the Government and the cash award would
be handed over to her on Wednesday.
Sakshi had earlier on Tuesday tweeted, “Aa rahi hoon main, apne des apne ghar! (I am coming back, to my country, to my home),”
The BJP-led Government has also directed party workers of Rohtak, Gurgaon, Karnal and other districts to give Sakshi a grand welcome and line up on both sides of the road and cheer her during the victory procession in Rohtak.
The Haryana Government is also likely to announce many sops for the Olympic medallist.
The diminutive 23-year-old hailing from Mokhra village in Rohtak, had achieved glory at the Rio Olympics last week by bagging Bronze medal at the 31st Olympic Games. She had clinched the bronze in the women’s freestyle 58kg category with a spirited comeback victory over Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan.